Catherine Tracy (1694-1722) in open blue silk day-gown with lace underdress, her long fair hair plaited and upswept and falling over her left shoulder

Details

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1683/84-1767)
Catherine Tracy (1694-1722) in open blue silk day-gown with lace underdress, her long fair hair plaited and upswept and falling over her left shoulder
enamel on copper
oval, 1 13/16 in. (46 mm.) high, gold frame with reeded border, the reverse with sitter's initials on blue enamel ground and sitter's dates on white ground within green enamelled foliate border and blue and turquoise enamelled surmount

Provenance

By direct family descent.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that the reverse of the frame of the present lot was also designed by Christian Friedrich Zincke as he was apprenticed to his father, a goldsmith.
For a portrait of a Mr F. Tracy by William Prewett, see lot 76.

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